Sermon Tone Analysis

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Romans

This is how we left things last week.

What an amazing revelation.

Paul has just made the point that Jew and Gentile all in the same boat.

Sin has captured us all.

Bound us up.

Shut us up.

If we listen to the world, we might get the impression that Paul ends the statement there.

Dan Brown - “our need to an external God who sits up there and judges us will get less and less” Replace with some sort of universal consciousness… So many don’t want a part in God because they don’t want to be judged.

But, of course, that’s a heretical misunderstanding of God.

God’s purpose is not Judgement but Mercy.

SWhy?

This verse tells us our value to God.

It reminds us the SIN is made known in our lives in order that we will believe in Christ.

Luke 12

“Fear not; you are of more value...”

Jeremiah tells the exiles in Babylon that they were valuable to God.

His plans were for a good end… there was a future for them.

A hope.

And we know that the future they hoped for and the hope they kept wouldn’t be by their own power or effort.

The promised future and hope is Jesus; for them 14 generations in the future.

What Paul wrote in , he also wrote to the Galatians:

Luke

14 generations.

Sin is revealed by the scripture, by the law; the disastrous effect of Sin made known.

plainly says that through the law comes a knowledge of Sin.

Revealed Si

When God reveals himself, he reveals true North, His perfect nature.

And we don’t measure up.

The Promise by faith is the promise of Life Everlasting in Christ.

That is the future and the hope for those of us who have put all our eggs in the Christ basket.

We’re all-in for Christ.

Disobedience to God - that is, SIN - truly is the great equalizer in all of history.

No man can boast of anything before God.

And so the Mercy of God that Paul speaks of in 11:32 is Christ.

God himself come down to walk among us, live the life we have no hope of living, to die the death we deserved.

If a single sparrow is important to God, how much more so are we who he created in his own image?

For God so loved the world… Christ!

That’s the answer.

And so

Faithful Obedience to God, found only in Christ, is the great Mercy of God for all mankind over all history.

And God accomplished it.

From Adam to Christ, with perfect conformity to his nature and perfect conformity to his revelations of prophecy, God made his sovereign will of redemption a reality.

Across 42 generations of mostly stubborn and arrogant and exceedingly disobedient people, God accomplished salvation in Christ.

This is what leads to Paul’s hymn of Praise.

Romans 11:33

Depth

God’s incomprehensibility is reflected in the word depth.

It’s not that we cannot know God at all, but rather that we can never get to the bottom of who He is in His greatness.

Riches

Paul loved the thought of God’s riches:

Romans 10:12-13

Unsearchable...

Do you rejoice in the depth of the riches of God’s grace toward you in Christ?

Do you rejoice in the fact that God has blessed you with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ?

Do you rejoice in the fact that God has blessed you with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ?

Do you marvel that He chose you in Christ before the foundation of the world and that in love He predestined you to adoption as his child through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, freely bestowing His grace on you in the Beloved

Do you rejoice and marvel that He chose you in Christ before the foundation of the world and that in love He predestined you to adoption as his child through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the purpose of His will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed you in the Beloved?

Paul’s attitude toward God’s riches reflects that which Jesus taught:

Matthew

Matthew 13:47

We are to Lavish ourselves in the riches of God found in: Christ!

[alone].

Bible is equally as clear that finding our joy and seeking fulfillment in riches according to the world will leave us empty and outside of his mercy and grace...

Wisdom of God: Christ!

Romans 11:33

How...

We are not great section:

1 Cor 1:27-29

Worship!